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Farm Convoy Of Tractors Hit Paris Streets To Protest Pesticide Ban
Farm Convoy Of Tractors Hit Paris Streets To Protest Pesticide Ban Adding to the days of strikes and mass street demonstrations about French President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age, farmers have flooded the streets of Paris for an entirely different reason. French farmers drove hundreds of tractors, if not more, into […]
Paris on Two Wheels: Leading the Race?
Paris on Two Wheels: Leading the Race? Since the first lockdown, Paris has become the test site for an ambitious cycling project, rolling out new infrastructure and remapping its transport routes. It is not the only European city where pop-up cycle paths have appeared, almost overnight, but in some cases they have not remained in […]
Paris Erupts into Protests Against Macron & Lockdowns
Paris Erupts into Protests Against Macron & Lockdowns Today in Paris, many thousands of “yellow vests” took to the streets to demonstrate against French President Emmanuel Macron and the French government over its draconian lockdowns and CORONA restrictions. This was a massive riot where police not only used tear gas and batons, they were firing both rubber […]
France Paralyzed By Largest General Strike In Decades
France Paralyzed By Largest General Strike In Decades In what appears to be the biggest disruption to French society since the gilets jaunes demonstrators nearly torched Paris last year, public workers across the country stayed home on Thursday, immobilizing public transit across the country as the first general strike in more than 20 years began. […]
Yellow Vests Protests Rock Paris For 21st Consecutive Week
Yellow Vests Protests Rock Paris For 21st Consecutive Week
Icebergs and bankers
Icebergs and bankers On Saturday March 16, tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Paris demanding action on climate change. At the same time and not far away, a group of gilets jaunes protestors were demonstrating, sometimes violently, against the economic policies of President Macron—one of which increased the tax on gasoline and diesel […]
Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green
Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green From Paris, Léa Bouchoucha reports for Consortium News on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance. Some had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday— one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18th straight weekend of Yellow […]
France To Deploy Military Against Next Round Of Yellow Vest Protests
France To Deploy Military Against Next Round Of Yellow Vest Protests If the black smoke over the Paris skyline and charred cars and buildings along the Champs-Elysees which have become characteristic of France’s increasingly violent Yellow Vest protests over the past months weren’t alarming enough, things look to get much worse as the government prepares to […]
Watch Live: Yellow Vests Rage For 11th Straight Week; Organizers Plan Night Rallies, Human Chain Of 50,000
Watch Live: Yellow Vests Rage For 11th Straight Week; Organizers Plan Night Rallies, Human Chain Of 50,000 France’s Yellow Vests are out again en masse – taking to the streets of Paris and other cities across the country for the 11th straight week of anti-government protests despite rainy conditions. #GiletsJaunes protest: #Toulon – 11th Saturday […]
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported nine weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it’s part and parcel of their […]
“It’s A Reunion For People Who Broke The World”: Author Explains Why Davos Should Be Cancelled
“It’s A Reunion For People Who Broke The World”: Author Explains Why Davos Should Be Cancelled Paris is burning, a large chunk of the US federal government is shut down and Britain is careening toward a delay of Article 50 – or possibly a second referendum – as the Brexit process descends into chaos, calls […]
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go Will France, under Macron – Implosion 2 – become a candidate for exiting the EU thanks to the Yellow Vests? The “Gilets Jaunes” will not let go. Not even – or especially not – after Macron‘s half-hearted, rather cynical and grandstanding concessions – of “too little and […]
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites The Paris elites and their enablers may find that the next general strike won’t immobilize Paris, it will strangle Paris from the periphery. Eleven months ago, I posited in The Ghosts of 1968 (2/14/18) that the idealistic hope that mass demonstrations could trigger real reform […]
French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests
French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests France is set to deploy tens of thousands of police and gendarmes across the country on Saturday, including 8,000 in Paris, to deal with a fifth weekend of Yellow Vest protests – just days after three people were killed and 13 injured after a mass shooting […]
France In Chaos; Macron Considers State Of Emergency Amid “Yellow Vest” Protests; “All Options” Considered
France In Chaos; Macron Considers State Of Emergency Amid “Yellow Vest” Protests; “All Options” Considered French President Emmanuel Macron will hold an emergency meeting of senior ministers on Sunday following the worst unrest Paris has seen in a decade on Saturday. Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux told France’s Europe 1 radio that a state of emergency may be imposed to […]
